Dahomey Amazons

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Lindsay and Madison discuss the Dahomey Amazons, as well as how history can be both good and bad, that women are badass, and how colonialism ruins everything. The fourth in our Black History Month series.

Information pulled from the following sources:

• 2022 Atlas Obscura article by Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing

• 2022 Insider article by Yoonji Han

• 2022 National Geographic article by Rachel Jones

• 2022 Smithsonian Magazine article by Meilan Solly

• 2020 The Best of Africa article by Veronica Mwanza

• 2020 Guardian Life article by Michael Bamidele

• 2018 BBC Travel article by Fleur Macdonald

• 1993 Paideuma article by Robin Law

• AAREG article

• UNESCO Women in African History

• Wikipedia (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11)

Go check out our friends Sarah and Damini over at the None of This is Real podcast.

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